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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSebastian Gorka --The deputy assistant to Trump--is still at the WH!!...
Besides what he says (of course the Repugs are defending JR)---why is this creep still at the WH?
I thought he was going to be reassigned a long time ago???
Sebastian Gorka on Trump meeting: Getting dirt 'is what political campaigns do'
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/politics/sebastian-gorka-donald-trump-jr-russian-lawyer-cnntv/index.html?sr=twCNNp071117sebastian-gorka-donald-trump-jr-russian-lawyer-cnntv0936AMVODtop&CNNPolitics=Tw
By Daniella Diaz, CNN
Updated 1:06 PM ET, Tue July 11, 2017
Story highlights
He defended the meeting, saying it wasn't illegal
He kept swerving topics away from the meeting to Clinton's campaign
Washington (CNN)The deputy assistant to President Donald Trump said ................................
Speaking on CNN's "New Day," Sebastian Gorka was referencing reports that Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer who offered to provide information to aid his father's campaign. Trump Jr. has acknowledged that he had attended the meeting with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya in the hope that she "might have information helpful to the campaign."
CNN's Alisyn Camerota asked Gorka why Trump Jr. attended the meeting, adding "they wanted the dirt."
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During his interview, Gorka repeatedly tried to spin away from the meeting to bring attention to Clinton's campaign. He also argued the Russian attorney had "no connection" to the Kremlin.
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Gorka was asked by Camerota about several people in the Trump campaign, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who didn't initially disclose their meetings with Russians until they were confronted with reports about them.
"You heard their statements. You heard Don Jr.'s statements. He's not even a member of the administration," he responded. "There's no need for private citizens to disclose his meeting in the campaign that happened months before."
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(135,827 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)I saw this guy lying, bullying, and being a real prick on MSNBC this AM. Disgraceful that a man like this is part of an American presidential administration.
disalitervisum
(470 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But Gorka knows that, which is why he's trying to make it about oppo research. It's about high-ranking campaign officials coordinating and colluding with a hostile foreign country to meddle in an American election. And that is sure as hell illegal.